The Supreme Court has declined without comment to hear an appeal brought by retired attorney Leo C. Donofrio, one of several related suits contending that Barack Obama isn’t a natural-born citizen as required by the Constitution because (pick one or several depending on your capacity for conspiracy theories):

He was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, and his Hawaiian certificate of live birth is a fake, and his mother was too young to grant him full citizenship status, so he’s Kenyan like his father.

He was born in Hawaii but his father was Kenyan and his mother was too young to grant him full citizenship status, so he’s Kenyan.

He was born in Hawaii but his citizenship was given up after his mother — actually a citizen herself according to this theory — remarried and moved to Indonesia. So I guess that would mean we just elected our first Indonesian African-American president.

Queensbury anti-tax protester Bob Schulz, whose We The People Foundation took out two pricey full-page ads in the Chicago Tribune last week (and brother, does that paper need the revenue) to publicize this line of inquiry, took part in a press conference with other like-minded activists this afternoon at the National Press Club in Washington.

Reached by cell phone, Schulz said the participants in the meeting got word of the court’s decision before it began. He held off on making a comment about the new development until he had time to take in the details.

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